Re: png as start menu icon

On 14.11.2011 22:05, Bernd Eggink wrote:
> On 14.11.2011 18:05, MarcusMoeller wrote:
>
>> Is it also possible to use a png as startmenu icon instead of a xpm?
>
> Why don't you just try it out?
> Anyway, you can use png, jpg and even svg icons, as long as you name it
> "start.xpm". And yes, that's a somewhat silly convention...

I came up with that idea lately, too.

Anyhow, I found a way to generate quite good looking xpm images, using 
Inkscape, saving as bitmap with white background, opening it in gimp, 
using the magic tool to select the white background, deleting the white 
background, saving it as xpm, alpha value 5 ... puh

The strange thing is that this leads to a better result than just 
exporting it from inkscape with transparent background and converting it 
to xpm using gimp with the same alpha values.

Greets
Marcus

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